My opinion is that sex work should be legal. It would enable involuntary virgins to get a good sex experience for payment; they will be guaranteed a good sex experience with a sex worker: no harassment, good education, and a fun time.

Sex work gets shamed by people puritans because of payment for sex and it’s “sinful”; yet these same persons puritans get and have sex for free out of “passion” or marriage; they also discriminate against minorities in sec.

EDIT: Apparently there is an implied difference between sex work and prostitution. I mean sex work.

EDIT 2: I messed up the writing of my post. My real opinion is located in this comment:

Oof. I didn’t realize there was way more exploitation than just sex traffickers. It totally makes sense though; sex trades are a product of capitalist exploitation and the existence of private property. (Naturally under communism, the prevalence of sex trades would be heavily reduced.)

It seems like I couldn’t communicate my ideas properly beforehand. I don’t want people in the sex trade to be criminalized; I want pimps and johns to be criminalized.

Only a few hours ago: I wanted to support a sex trade industry that didn’t involve rapes or rely on economic coercion. I just wanted disabled people, who keep getting discriminated out of sex,[1][2][3] to be able to feel better about their lives; a lack of sex can cause mental health issues in some people (even though this shouldn’t happen). (However, having sex probably won’t fix the issue, it will just hide the problems until later). Now I feel like shit…

  1. Sexual Ableism ↩︎

  2. Dating With Disability: How to Rise Above Sexual Ableism ↩︎

  3. Dating with Disability: Choose Your Dreams Over Sexual Ableism ↩︎

  • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
    1•2 years ago

    all laws around stalking, rape should be removed and women should be taught self-defence

    What you are pointing here is one of the most cruel things I have ever read here.

    Certain laws exist to protect rights, in this case being physical and psychological integrity at most.

    Given your POV, you are being elitist by claiming indirectly that people who cannot defend themselves should not have their rights guaranteed.

    At the same time and in a posterior comment, you simply make the victim as guilty of the situation.

    I am not sure what is your experience in life but this is for sure not one of them as you seem to try to normalize and accept a situation that should not even exist even sacrifying people for it.

    I am sure that if you ever experienced this and you were in a truly vulnerable and similar situation, this would not be your POV.

      • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
        1•2 years ago

        Sex and rape are equivalent as seen from people not present at event site

        Women also have controlling characteristics due to evolutionary selection and women would also have to understand to not control men

        women have tried to control men in past, men have overpowered them completely

        This already shows your POV.